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Psychotherapy |
Treatment that involves an interaction between a therapist and a person trying to overcome psychological problems |
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Electric Approach |
Treatment using techniques from many different forms of therapy |
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Psychoanalysis |
Freud's theory -focuses on a person's unconscious motives and unresolved childhood conflicts -most effective in treating anxiety disorders -time consuming and expensive |
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Free Association |
Where patient tells therapist anything that comes to mind |
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Dream Analysis |
Therapist tries to understand the unconscious meanings behind a person's dreams |
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Resistance |
Patient tries to avoid or conceal info that causes anxiety |
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Transference |
Patient transfers strong emotions for other people on to the therapist |
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Interpretation |
Therapist goes through analyzing their notes and tries to come up with a plan to help |
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Psychodynamic Therapy |
Look at person's life experiences and how they impact their current problems. Short-term and less expensive |
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Interpersonal Therapy |
Therapist focuses on current relationships to understand their psychological problems |
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Cognitive Therapy |
Focuses on changing the way a person thinks |
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Cognitive Behavior Therapy |
-came up with by Aaron Beck - focuses on changing a person's self-defeating thinking while also changing their behavior -really successful in treating depression |
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Rational Emotive (Behavior) Therapy (RET) (REBT) |
-came up with by Albert Ellis - when a therapist helps a person recognize and change their irrational thinking - the therapist is actually confronting the person. |
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Humanistic Therapy |
Help people reach their own conclusions about their problems |
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Client Centered Therapy |
-made up by Carl Rogers - therapist creates and accepting environment and then they help clients find solutions to problems -Unconditioned positive regard -Active listening |
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Behavior Therapy |
Uses learning principles to eliminate unwanted behaviors |
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Counter conditioning |
Teaches a person to associate new responses to things causing them anxiety in the past |
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Exposure therapy |
Treat anxiety by exposing to fears |
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Mary Cover Jones |
-Came up with counter conditioning - study involving 3 year old, peter, who's scares of rabbits -uses cc to associate rabbit with fav snack -day one starts with just snack -day two, rabbit comes in but very far away -eventually rabbit close enough that Peter doesn't need the snack to feel safe enough to pet rabbit |
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Systematic Desensitization |
-came up with by Joseph Wolpe - person learns to associate relaxed state with something causing them and anxiety -Relaxation: teaches them different relaxation techniques -Hierarchy: therapist and client rankings anxieties with one being the most severe -Exposure: gradually exposes starting with the least threatening anxiety |
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Aversive conditioning |
Where a person is sociates unpleasant state with unwanted Behavior |
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Virtual reality exposure therapy |
Exposes a person to simulations of their fears |
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Token economy |
People get rewards for desired Behavior. Best with schizophrenia |
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Group therapy |
Group meets and discuss his problems and works towards their goals |
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Advantages of group therapy |
- therapist can help more people in less time - Cost Less - beneficial to talk with people with similar problems - feel like part of a community |
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Family therapy |
Therapist tries to improve family relationships and communication |
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Biomedical therapy |
Treatments that use prescription drugs and medical procedures |
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Psychopharmacology |
Study of how drugs impact of the mind and body |
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Antipsychotic drugs |
Drugs used to treat schizophrenia and other thought disorders. Work by blocking activity of dopamine in brain. |
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Thorazine |
First drug used to treat schizophrenia |
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Side effects of antipsychotic drugs |
-Could lead to Parkinson's disease -Tardive Dyskinesia: disorder affecting movement of facial muscles, lips, and tongue. Direct result of long term use of antipsychotic drugs |
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Clozaril |
Most effective treatment for schizophrenia |
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Anti-anxiety drugs |
- try to control anxiety by depressing activity in the nervous system - Valium and Xanax are the main anxiety drugs |
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Antidepressants |
Used to treat depression by increasing level of serotonin in the brain |
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Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitants (SSRI) |
Drugs that block the reuptake of Serotonin so that it remains active in the brain longer. Most used is Prozac. Also common is Lexapro and Zoloft |
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Mood-stabilizing drugs |
-Drugs used to treat bipolar disorder - main one is lithium - 70% of people with bipolar who've tried lithium showed major Improvement |
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Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT) |
Treatment for major depression. Brief electrical charge is sent through brain. • unresponsive to all other therapies • short term memory loss • don't know how it helps |
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Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (rTMS) |
Repeated passing of magnetic field over brain to treat depression |
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Psycho surgery |
Surgery that removes or destroys brain tissue in order to change Behavior |
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Lobotomy |
Treatment for schizophrenia or violent people that they can't control. Point was to cut nerves from frontal lobe to emotion Center |
